Hello,
I am searching for an open source flash video recorder, which can record video from my webcam and then play them back. Do you know of any?
Why flash? What about guvcview (no rpm package available) or MPlayer/mencoder? They both record and play video from most webcams.
Because I need to put it in a web page.
Then: convert the video to *.flv with mencoder
This might work if I wouldn’t have to connect to a Red5 server.
This might work if I wouldn’t have to connect to a Red5 server.
Sorry, I do not understand what you mean here. Any explanations about the problem?
I need to find a flash player/recorder which will connect to a Red5 server(open source alternative to Flash Media Server), and record/playback videos from it.
I do not know of a open source recorder that records direct to flv. There are commercial packages.
There are open source that record to other formats and then you could do this with ffmpeg or mencoder.
I briefly played with an example ffmpeg line (but it needs to be tuned on a per/webcam basis, … and codecs changed … and in this case below I also note audio/video are desync’d when I tried it, so I added “-async 1” to try and fix that a bit … ):
ffmpeg -f oss -i /dev/dsp -ab 56000 -ar 44100 -b 2000 -r 25 -async 1 -f video4linux2 -s 320x240 -i /dev/video0 -f flv -b 1000000 out.flv
and the codecs may need work, as I have h.263 as the video format and mpeg2 as the audio output using my webcam. That would likely need addition of some arguments to change the video and audio codecs … lots of trial and error and learning …
Note I do not know the details how to do this, and I can’t do this for you, so you will need to play with this.
I never worked with Red5, and you will probably be better off at the Multimedia Forum to find a guru, but you probably need something like StreamStream (SteamStream - Red5Wiki; Red5 Flash media server wiki), right? You take a stream from the webcam and then stream it RTSP with Red5?
A year ago I played around with Red5 a little bit, found it promising but didn’t support a few FLVs I was testing… Didn’t investigate further why and of course any issues might have been resolved since then.
I haven’t tried to develop for Flash and haven’t had to work with it too much, but whenever I have I’ve generally looked to this website which lists Open Source Flash projects
Note that although Adobe has open sourced Flash for a few years now and makes the Actionscript Flash SDK available for free, I haven’t found it trivial coding for Flash (at least for me).
Depending on what you’re trying to do, you may not have to deploy a big server like Red5. If you’re serving only a few clients on demand VLC for instance will serve streaming AVI, it’s almost as trivial as streaming using an XP box.
In other words, there probably are Flash options, but as you consider options don’t overlook that other technologies and software supporting other codecs could be easier to work with… Just make sure of course that the target client machines have viewers that are already installed or easy to install to view.
HTH,
Tony
I have found this: Red5 recorder: open source video recorder. Add video to your site. and figured it out. It seems that it’s almost what I need. Thank you for your replies though.
thanks for info, I heard Video To Flash Converter PRO ( [GeoVid] Video to Flash, Flash to Video,PowerPoint to Video, Video to mp3](http://www.geovid.com) ) is good app too for converting video to flash, anybody use it?
On 2010-11-10, derw <derw@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> thanks for info, I heard Video To Flash Converter PRO ( ‘[GeoVid] Video
> to Flash, Flash to Video,PowerPoint to Video, Video to mp3’
> (http://www.geovid.com) ) is good app too for converting video to flash,
> anybody use it?
How can any tool that converts video to Flash be good?
Don’t you know Flash is evil?
Sorry… 
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